Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction (The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8) • (1979) • essay by Terry Carr
• 1 • The Barbie Murders • [Anna-Louise Bach] • (1978) • novelette by John Varley
• 29 • A Hiss of Dragon • (1978) • short story by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
• 47 • Black Glass • (1978) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 74 • To Bring in the Steel • (1978) • novelette by Donald Kingsbury
• 113 • The Very Slow Time Machine • (1978) • novelette by Ian Watson
• 133 • Devil You Don't Know • [Val Clarke] • (1978) • novelette by Dean Ing
• 173 • Count the Clock That Tells the Time • (1978) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 191 • View from a Height • (1978) • short story by Joan D. Vinge
• 206 • The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck • (1978) • novelette by Hilbert Schenck
• 235 • Vermeer's Window • (1978) • short story by Gordon Eklund
• 249 • The Man Who Had No Idea • (1978) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• 281 • Death Therapy • (1978) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 304 • Recommended Reading - 1978 • (1979) • essay by Terry Carr
• 306 • The Science Fiction Year (1978) • (1979) • essay by Charles N. Brown